by Nathan Moore
Did this week’s image prompt have you staring at a three-legged chair? Did you linger with the mystery? Or did you build some symbolic architecture? Tell a story? Write about something completely different?
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That damn chair has taken up residence in my brain. Wrote two poems for the prompt as a result…
Emmeleia (the Matriarch’s Tale) and Poustinya
here’s my response:
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/im-read-write-poem-ing-it-this-week/
i loved the image!
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Joseph I know where you are coming from. It has been torture for me and I only wrote one. Here it is: http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com “Azure skies”
Pamela
I must be sick….I am early…actually did not go to Wed nite poker. so here is the silent chair TALKING TO THE CHAIR
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
Here’s what I Wrote.
http://pasaery.wordpress.com/
Thanks Nathan for this visually sparse yet abundantly provocative image!
Chair redux
Mine is Handmade
Wonderful image. This is one way of looking at it
From me a shameless hijacking of this week’s excellent prompt to tout a poem commemorating an event that is now one day past! Back to playing by the rules next time, I promise…
Click on my name if you’re prepared to compound my felony!
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/bureaucracy
Mine this week is Desert, I hope you enjoy
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Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/01/beacon-burns-bright.html
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2010/01/three-legs.html
Here goes. Short and sweet!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/homage.html
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind with a Three Legged Chair’
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
three legged
Still struggling with the same themes.
Try’d them in a different rhyming pattern this time.
Please enjoy – Empty Chair
[...] Kayam, litmus, Nagual, paranoia, peyote, reality, shaman, shamanism by Donald Harbour For Read Write Prompt #111: Broken Chair/strong>. Stare at a three-legged chair picture, December 21, 2007 #25, by Sepulture (Mood Disorder), and [...]
For Carlos Castenada and his three witches (where ever they are) and all the old hippies among us. Al Gore has no idea what a simple truly is until he has tried it (you too Wayne).
Awed by the simple truth.
I had fun with this one, since my poetry is usually of different style when I do open mics, so go to TMI-Chef and you will find it! Thanks for this!
Instead of writing about the hooded (worshipping?) observer and lost intended function for a chair in a splendid outdoor setting, I turned my attention to a fully functional chair in an equally splendid indoor setting.
http://yourinnerceo.blogspot.com
Therese L. Broderick replied:
January 29th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Allan, I don’t have a Blogger or Google account, so I sent my comment about your poem to your profile page here on RWP.
What a fascinating subject to write on! Here is my attempt…
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Managed to write to the prompt again this week! Thanks for a resonant image.
My poem is here:
Legless
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/01/legless-read-write-prompt-111-broken-chair.html
and i thought i was going to be one of the first to post! enjoyed this image nathan and the interpretation it lends itself to. lots of directions available here, hope you guys dig mine!
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2010/01/view-from-long-term-care-facility-chair.html
-lawrence
dang, you people get up early!
y’all got broken chairs or something?
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/a-three-legged-chair/
Tornado Weather
This is what is left upon these scoured plains
After the whirlwind has split apart the air,
A silence settles over the ruins, the sky of green remains.
A broken chair where once you sat and wove the skeins
Of yarn, your fluttering fingers – firelight dancing on your hair
This is what is left upon these scoured plains.
The sauce you made for supper, simmering on the flame
The lingering of spices, you took such care
Now only silence over the ruins, the sky of green remains
Reminding us of all the fears our world can contain
Scattered and broken like this useless chair
That is all that I have left upon this scoured plain
No roof, no walls, no shelter from the rain
Who could believe that once a home stood there
Silent as death, that devil sky of green remains
My life, my love, the empty earth retains.
This shattering of hope is more than man can bear
To view the ruins left upon this scoured plain
Forevermore the wind sweeps past, the sky of green remains.
Donald Harbour replied:
January 28th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Missed the reply button. My response to your poem below.
DH
derrick replied:
January 28th, 2010 at 9:34 am
This is lovely and sad; powerful and poignant.
Joseph Harker replied:
January 28th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Absolutely beautiful!
barbara_y replied:
January 28th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Beautiful
rallentanda replied:
January 28th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Excellent use of the villanelle form Marian.
The sky of green is a beautiful image.
Nathan replied:
January 29th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
I agree, “sky of green” is striking and beautiful.
ravenswingpoetry replied:
February 1st, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Agreed with rallentanda. Well crafted. Your choice of this form helps emphasize the theme of loss with repetition. The “sky of green” image is rather haunting. Good work.
Mine’s Praying to Broken Gods.
“Wasteland with Boy and Broken Chair” tried to become a prose poem but didn’t quite make it. Here it is in conventional form–
http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com
This is very earthy, insightful, and smacks of experience. The picture must have reached deep inside you for this poetic experience of tornado confrontation with life. I know from where you are coming. Deeply felt and moving. Thanks.
Regards,
DH
My offering for this week (also my last poem for January’s Mini Challenge):
Endgame
was taken in a completely different direction than intended…I’m truly not so doom and gloom!
http://ofheart.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/the-balance-of-insanity
Mine is here. Thanks!
Poem for RWP 111
I followed the link to Flicker and was captivated by the note under the photo. Is that cheating?
http://survivorscribe.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/this-photo-has-notes-poetry-challenge-day-2/
Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/an-anthropological-study/
The Desert of Low Tide
I saw this as a puzzle
I never know whether to say THANK YOU or CURSES UPON YOU for these prompts. LOL.
http://passionatelycreating.blogspot.com/2010/01/unseen.html
Looking forward to checking out all these poems in between letting my laptop cool down. Hopefully I can get this posted before it fritzes up again:
Ever After
Somewhere near Teec Nos Pos – a flash story.
Sorry, Nathan – I did something different. A different picture, that is.
http://synecdochicstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/not-possible-to-gift-wrap-oddly-shaped.html
I thought I didn’t have anything for this week. Then I started to write a villanelle about something else completely. Then I found the chair in the very last stanza. So here’s a Villanelle for Three-Legged Chair
First try. Interesting image…
http://musemesomepoetry.blogspot.com/
Here’s mine: iCoyote
Marian,
I love the line “My life, my love and the empty earth retains” Beautiful!
Pamela
I wrote this poem days ago and almost forgot to post it. Eeeeeek!
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2010/01/all-because-of-broken-chair.html
I know I am ridiculously late with this, but it couldn’t be helped. When I saw this amazing photograph, I knew I had to do something for it. Thank you so much for finding and posting it, Nathan. I’m grateful I got something drafted. It felt like a story to me, so that’s the poem I made.
http://shemakespoems.blogspot.com/2010/01/elegy-for-three-legged-chair.html
(apologies also for posting to the prompt post instead of here. what can I say? two in the morning.)
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Late but got it done. Used my own old chair photo. Here: http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/read-write-poem-old-chair/
A bout of a cold, but I finally finished.
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/53150.html
I know I’m coming in waaaay late with this one, but I have been suffering through a stubborn case of writer’s block. I’ll be reading everyone’s poems tomorrow, and am really looking forward to it!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2010/01/uprooted.html